Work with APCO Aviation Defense to establish clear recovery and protection requirements based on your platform, payload, operating conditions, and technical constraints.
Start with a clear technical direction. Move forward with confidence.
At this stage, both teams align on the technical direction the recovery or protection textile solution must support.
Your team receives a defined technical basis for moving into design and prototype development.
APCO Aviation Defense brings more than 50 years of aviation experience to recovery and protection textile solutions. We understand how weight, volume, opening shock, structure, airflow and deployment conditions work together as one connected physical system.
Solutions are shaped around what must be recovered, captured or protected.
Compact textile solutions help reduce integration burden and support prototypes, small production runs and larger project needs without requiring large batches.
Net materials, deployment logic and structural behavior are evaluated for the application.
Selection and development are guided by the operating conditions and the validation required.
Together, we will turn your requirements into a clear technical direction and a solution built to preserve what matters most.
Practical guidance on UAV recovery, parachute systems and protective textiles from APCO’s engineering team.
We develop lightweight, low-bulk recovery systems for UAVs, drones, aerospace platforms, and mission-critical assets. Solutions may include parachutes, steerable canopies, airbags, deceleration systems, deployment bags, and integrated recovery solutions.
Every project starts with the mission, the asset and the required outcome. We review the platform, its envelope, the operating conditions and the integration constraints with your team, then define the solution, the deployment logic and the materials around that requirement rather than around a catalogue item.
Our recovery and capture solutions are engineered per application, from small UAVs to larger flying assets. The payload, approach speed and available capture or recovery envelope define the system geometry, materials and energy absorption, so share the platform data and we will confirm what is achievable.
Yes. Selection and development are guided by the operating conditions and the validation required. We support testing, qualification and certification activities as part of the project, including prototype trials, documentation and the production runs that follow.
Use the Define your project form or contact our team directly. A short description of the asset, the risk or recovery scenario and the expected outcome is enough for a first review; we then come back with questions, options and a proposed way forward.
